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Shanaya

#1,988 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Shanaya has been given to 3,149 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #1,988 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 234 recorded.

Babies named Shanaya, 2025

1 in 34,200

Shanaya over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Shanaya: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Shanaya means

Shanaya is a given name.

The naming story behind Shanaya

Wikidata records Shanaya as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q20000863, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,149 girls were recorded with the name Shanaya between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 234 in 2016; its best national rank was #1,100 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,542 in 2020 to #1,988 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,385 in 2015 to #1,988 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Shanaya?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 34,200
97 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 16,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,988
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
23,691 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Shanaya sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 23,691 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shanaya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Shanayas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Shanaya was born before 2015 — so the typical Shanaya is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
43.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,149
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 43.4% of all recorded uses (1,368).

Is Shanaya rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+129
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−446
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−603
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.57×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
41.5%
Peak was 2016 (234)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,100
2016

Spellings of Shanaya

Shanaya is not the most common spelling — Shana is, with 15.2% against Shanaya's 1.6%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Shanaya is used

Across 2016–2025, Shanaya was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 2,857 girls, against 1 in 9,075 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 50,000).

235 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 2,857
  2. 2California1 in 6,250
  3. 3Washington1 in 6,250
  4. 4Connecticut1 in 6,667
  5. 5Illinois1 in 7,692
  6. 6Massachusetts1 in 8,333
  7. 7New York1 in 8,333
  8. 8Texas1 in 9,091

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Shanaya around the world

Where Shanaya ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #997
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2019–2023
    #630
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2016–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • France
    2012–2025
    #2,115
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #560
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1997–2013
    #403
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Shanaya

People whose public names include Shanaya, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Shanaya by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,988
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 446
Best rank ever
#1,100
2016
Peak year
2016
234 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,149
Count in 2025
97

Names similar to Shanaya

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Shanaya

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Shanaya, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Shanaya

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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